It’s On Us x Free Street: Building Puppets for Social Justice

Join us at the Free Street Storefront (4625 S Ashland Ave) from 1-3p for a social justice puppet-making workshop with Free Street artists!

We are so excited to be part of this Day of Artistic Activations answering the theme: What Happens when ICE Melts? Organized by The Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois, Chicago this event invites people into an abolitionist vision that includes dismantling immigration enforcement.

Join Free Street artisits in learning how puppetry can be a tool for social justice and storytelling!

It’s On Us is a day of art and action on Saturday, June 13th in celebration of Chicago freedom struggles. RSVP here to join us for the day’s free activities, which include workshops, resources for resistance, soapbox speeches, and performances and art programming by Jamila Woods, Taína Asili, Damon Williams, Maria Gaspar, Kristiana Rae Colón, and the Social Justice Initiative at UIC.

It’s On Us invites us to imagine: what blooms when ICE melts? The answer is on us to manifest together. Under authoritarian conditions and in times of repression, we are encouraged to desensitize ourselves, to ignore what we see, hear, smell, taste and feel. On this day, we call our neighbors to awaken their senses and one another: to see clearly, to listen deeply, to touch the ground and each other in solidarity, to taste the sweetness of shared life, to smell the earth that sustains us. By engaging our senses together, we embody liberation and practice radical imagination, building community through mutual aid, mobilization, and solidarity. When ICE melts, what blooms next is not inevitable, it is something we grow and cultivate together. Freedom begins when we remember that it’s on us.